<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:36 PM Thorsten Glaser <<a href="mailto:tg@mirbsd.de">tg@mirbsd.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">… but it certainly is another service that can change or go away<br>
in a jiffie, and those who prefer to not be dependent on such<br>
things do well to self-host.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A basically volunteer agency like OSI "self-hosts" when someone volunteers to host for them. When that volunteer loses interest, the "self-hosting" goes away. That's the way the Scheme community lost a bunch of servers and some important mailing list archives. We've gotten most of it back now, but it has taken a lot more effort by a lot more volunteers. The advantage to paying for things is that someone has an incentive to keep them running; of course, that requires a funding source.</div><div><br></div><div>"The part-time help of wits is no better than the full-time help of half-wits."</div><div><br></div><div>"Fail-safe systems fail by failing to fail safe."</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>John Cowan <a href="http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan">http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan</a> <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a><br>In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side<br>with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. --Gerald Holton<br></div><div><br></div></div></div>